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Daily Readings for Sunday, July 1, 2018

1May God be gracious to us and bless us
and make his face to shine upon us, Selah2that your way may be known upon earth,
your saving power among all nations. 3Let the peoples praise you, O God;
let all the peoples praise you.

4Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
for you judge the peoples with equity
and guide the nations upon earth. Selah5Let the peoples praise you, O God;
let all the peoples praise you.

6The earth has yielded its increase;
God, our God, has blessed us.7May God continue to bless us;
let all the ends of the earth revere him.

Morning Psalm 150

1 Praise the Lord!
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty firmament! 2 Praise him for his mighty deeds;
praise him according to his surpassing greatness!

3 Praise him with trumpet sound;
praise him with lute and harp! 4 Praise him with tambourine and dance;
praise him with strings and pipe! 5 Praise him with clanging cymbals;
praise him with loud clashing cymbals! 6 Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!

First Reading Numbers 21:4-9, 21-35

4From Mount Hor they
set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land
of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way.
5The people spoke
against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought
us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is
no food and no water, and we detest this miserable
food." 6Then the
LORD sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they
bit the people, so that many Israelites died.
7The people came to
Moses and said, "We have sinned by speaking against
the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD to take away
the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the
people. 8And the LORD
said to Moses, "Make a poisonous serpent, and set it
on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it
and live." 9So
Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole;
and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would
look at the serpent of bronze and live.

21Then Israel sent
messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,
22"Let me pass
through your land; we will not turn aside into field or
vineyard; we will not drink the water of any well; we
will go by the King's Highway until we have passed
through your territory." 23But Sihon would not allow Israel
to pass through his territory. Sihon gathered all his
people together, and went out against Israel to the
wilderness; he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
24Israel put him to the
sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to
the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites; for the boundary
of the Ammonites was strong. 25Israel took all these towns, and
Israel settled in all the towns of the Amorites, in
Heshbon, and in all its villages. 26For Heshbon was the city of King
Sihon of the Amorites, who had fought against the former
king of Moab and captured all his land as far as the
Arnon. 27Therefore the
ballad singers say, "Come to Heshbon, let it be
built; let the city of Sihon be established. 28For fire came out from Heshbon,
flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and
swallowed up the heights of the Arnon. 29Woe to you, O Moab! You are
undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons
fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite
king, Sihon. 30So their
posterity perished from Heshbon to Dibon, and we laid
waste until fire spread to Medeba."

31Thus Israel settled
in the land of the Amorites. 32Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and
they captured its villages, and dispossessed the Amorites
who were there.

33Then they turned and
went up the road to Bashan; and King Og of Bashan came
out against them, he and all his people, to battle at
Edrei. 34But the LORD
said to Moses, "Do not be afraid of him; for I have
given him into your hand, with all his people, and all
his land. You shall do to him as you did to King Sihon of
the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon." 35So they killed him, his sons, and
all his people, until there was no survivor left; and
they took possession of his land.

Second Reading Acts (17:12-21) 17:23-24

12Many of them
therefore believed, including not a few Greek women and
men of high standing. 13But when the Jews of Thessalonica
learned that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul
in Beroea as well, they came there too, to stir up and
incite the crowds. 14Then the believers immediately
sent Paul away to the coast, but Silas and Timothy
remained behind. 15Those who conducted Paul brought
him as far as Athens; and after receiving instructions to
have Silas and Timothy join him as soon as possible, they
left him.

16While Paul was
waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed to
see that the city was full of idols. 17So he argued in the synagogue
with the Jews and the devout persons, and also in the
marketplace every day with those who happened to be
there. 18Also some
Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some
said, "What does this babbler want to say?"
Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign
divinities." (This was because he was telling the
good news about Jesus and the resurrection.) 19So they took him and brought him
to the Areopagus and asked him, "May we know what
this new teaching is that you are presenting?
20It sounds rather
strange to us, so we would like to know what it
means." 21Now all
the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend
their time in nothing but telling or hearing something
new.

22Then Paul stood in
front of the Areopagus and said, "Athenians, I see
how extremely religious you are in every way.
23For as I went through
the city and looked carefully at the objects of your
worship, I found among them an altar with the
inscription, 'To an unknown god.' What therefore
you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
24The God who made the
world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and
earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands,

Gospel Reading Luke 13:10-17

10Now he was teaching
in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11And just then there appeared a
woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen
years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up
straight. 12When Jesus
saw her, he called her over and said, "Woman, you
are set free from your ailment." 13When he laid his hands on her,
immediately she stood up straight and began praising God.
14But the leader of the
synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the
sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, "There are six
days on which work ought to be done; come on those days
and be cured, and not on the sabbath day."
15But the Lord answered
him and said, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you
on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the
manger, and lead it away to give it water? 16And ought not this woman, a
daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long
years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath
day?" 17When he
said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the
entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things
that he was doing.

Evening Psalm 46

1 God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change,
though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea; 3 though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains tremble with its tumult. Selah

4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High. 5 God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved;
God will help it when the morning dawns. 6 The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter;
he utters his voice, the earth melts. 7 The LORD of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

8 Come, behold the works of the LORD;
see what desolations he has brought on the earth. 9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields with fire. 10 “Be still, and know that I am God!
I am exalted among the nations,
I am exalted in the earth.” 11 The LORD of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

Evening Psalm 93

1 The LORD is king, he is robed in majesty;
the LORD is robed, he is girded with strength.
He has established the world; it shall never be moved; 2 your throne is established from of old;
you are from everlasting.

3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their roaring. 4 More majestic than the thunders of mighty waters,
more majestic than the waves of the sea,
majestic on high is the LORD!